RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR*


Scurrying surrogates of
infamy turd the
purpled night sky

Drowning puppets
pirouette in
sea foam marginalia

Wide-berthed caesurae
Assholes winking
like genuflecting quarter notes

False maps beckon to
madrigals masturbating
in violin cases ……. splish splack!



*Profound, isn’t it? I scavenged nine key words from other people’s workshop poems. Can you guess which ones? Someone in the group borrowed Sylvia Plath’s palindrome without attribution. That gave me the idea of taking a word or phrase from each person's poem. I think it’s time for me to apply for a grant.